CCC-Watch

Counterframe (D. Smith)

I think this is a funny issue. In China, we have a saying about CCTV—our national network: The sports news is always correct, the weather is sometimes correct, the politics is always wrong. People know that CCTV is bad, so they ignore it or take the news as an apocryphal report.

Maybe Americans take too much for granted relative to Chinese. Those links and everything you wrote merit attention and consideration.

A weatherman in Sinclair’s Baltimore studio doing a live video feed pretends to “chat” with local anchors anywhere from Seattle to Syracuse as though they’re in the same room. In other words, they’re acting.

That seemed a little harsh. Did they say that they were in the same room?

In any case, there will likely be an increasing pressure on news outlets to report on themselves but without J-schools pushing this agenda it will be slow, no? UNC has this class, does it not?

I can understand companies taking media as just one form of entertainment. To them, it is just another form of content to package. That is why Bill Gates and NBC have a partnership. Sony considers news and entertainment as “software” for its hardware products. The Chinese way is simplest! No talking! Shut up! --haha! I admire the USA for having watchers like you.

I found three sources for your fun reading:

1> Ben Bagdikian is a famous professor about these matters (it seems). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html. I read his interview and it is on your topic, but I still do not clearly understand “price”. Why don’t professors talk plainly?

2> I took the name CCC-Watch from Judicial Watch, which is an interesting organization. So I searched ‘Media Watch’. There were many good links. I liked this one: http://www.aljazeerah.info/Sections/media_watch.htm. Cool!

It seems that one can never be free from subjectivity, but at least we can watch the watchers… and, in turn, watch those who do that (et cetera…).